Remains of village nearby offer insight into diet of 4,000 years ago – and associated infections, writes Liam James
Fossilised human waste dug up at the site of a nearby prehistoric village shows that cattle heart, kidney, liver and tongue were part of the local diet. Archaelogists who studied the waste said it contained the eggs of tapeworms – the first evidence of intestinal parasites in Neolithic Britons.
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